> I must say that although I am equal frustrate that there has not
> been a
> resolve the abbreviation design pattern accessible issue, the BBC
> response seems like a heavy handed ploy to force things.
I just want to say as a little aside, I didn't take it as a ploy nor
as heavy-handed myself. Although this could be a side-effect of my
having made the same decision for what is probably very similar
reasons in my job at Y!. I just didn't blog about it openly, whereas
the BBC did.
It's a matter of priorities -- and it would seem that, for the people
who set the semantic standards at the BBC, accessibility and clarity
of content for humans takes priority over encoding data to be machine
readable.
-- Norm.